Hush now, don’t you wake up 嘘，你不醒来

We’ll be leaving at first light 我们将留下的第一道曙光

Mama's buying you a mockingbird 妈妈的，你买一只知更鸟

To lull you through the night 麻痹你走夜路

Across the den by morning 整个书房，到了早晨

Here’s a blanket for you to share 这里有一个毯子给大家分享

They’re building down in Georgia 他们正在构建倒在格鲁吉亚

Daddy hears he’ll find work there 爸爸听到，他会找到工作的有

   

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And the mockingbird can sing 而模仿鸟会唱歌

Like the crying of the dove 像鸽子的哭泣

And I can’t tell my daughters 我无法告诉我的女儿

All the things that I am scared of 所有这一切我很害怕的事情

But I am not afraid of that bright glory up above 但我不怕那明亮的光彩了上述

Dying’s just another way to lead the ones you love 垂死的只是另一种方式带领你爱的人

   

No work for the working man 没有工作的人工作

Just one more empty mill 只是多了一个空磨

Hard times in Rockingham 罗金厄姆困难时期

Hard times harder still 更难艰

The crows are in the kitchen 乌鸦在厨房

The wolves at the door 在门口的狼

Our father's land of Eden is paradise no more 伊甸园我们父亲的土地就是天堂不再

   

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My sister stayed in Eden 我姐姐住在伊甸园

Her husband’s got some land 她的丈夫得到了一些土地

An agent for the county thinks that they might make a stand 全县代理人认为，他们可能会作出决断

A hard life full of working 艰苦的生活充满工作

With nothing much to show 有没有什么展示

A long life of leaving with nowhere to go 长寿命无处离开去了

   

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